SPICY PICKLED PUMPKIN

Welcome winter and snow.Yeahhh. 

Spicy pickled pumpkin is a typical delicious winter dish.

That sweet-spicy scent of cinnamon stick, sugar, cloves and ginger makes your tastebuds to explode.

1,5 l water

ca 1 kg peeled, seeded and diced pumpkin

ca 3 cm fresh ginger, finely peeled and chopped

1 vanilla bean, halved

some small chillies

1 cinnamon stick

5-6 cloves

5-6 black peppercornes

150 g sugar 

1 tbsp white wine vinegar

Heat water in a large pot and add ginger, vanilla bean, chillies, cinnamon stick, peppercorns and cloves. 

Bring to a boil and add sugar

Cook another 5 minutes.

Add pumpkin and simmer on medium heat, stirring occasionally until pumpkin is soft. Then add vinegar and cook another minute. 

Place the pumpkin in sterile jar(s). Leave it in fridge one week before eating.

SMASHING PUMPKIN SOUP

What can be better in the cold autumn day than a plate of yellow Smashing Pumpkin Soup. I love the roasted flavour of this soup.

And I am always associating pumpkins with my favorite band from youth - Smashing Pumpkins. So this is dedicated to the band, the best pumpkins ever :).




Soul Food:
Smashing Pumpkins
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Ingredients

ca 1,7kg pumpkin
2 onions
4 garlic cloves
600ml chicken stock
2 tbsp olive oil
1 lemon
2 dl cream
salt
pepper
chili


Preheat the owen to 200C.
Cut big chunks from a pumpkin (leave the skin), drizzle with olive oil and roast it in the owen 50min together with unpeeled onions. After 35 min add unpeeled garlic.

Peel and deseed the pumpkin and peel the onions and garlic. Blend until smooth, add cream, lemonzest and half of the lemon juice.

Bring the chicken stock to boil and add the pumpkin mix.

Season with salt, pepper and chili.